TY - GEN
T1 - Divided They Tweet
T2 - 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011
AU - Feller, Albert
AU - Kuhnert, Matthias
AU - Sprenger, Timm O.
AU - Welpe, Isabell M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2011, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/7/17
Y1 - 2011/7/17
N2 - In the context of a national election, this study explores more than 69,000 Twitter messages containing mentions of political parties and about 2,500 related user profiles to investigate the network structure of political microbloggers with respect to, first, their party preference and, second, the topics they discuss. We find that political microbloggers tend to follow like-minded peers. Microbloggers in a cohesive group tend to have the same political preferences. In addition, we conduct a content analysis of the political debate on Twitter to explore which topics and politicians are discussed and whether this debate reflects an ideological divide among participating users. While there are some discussion topics that are dominated by politically like-minded microbloggers, the majority of topics is discussed by a diverse group of microbloggers with various political preferences.
AB - In the context of a national election, this study explores more than 69,000 Twitter messages containing mentions of political parties and about 2,500 related user profiles to investigate the network structure of political microbloggers with respect to, first, their party preference and, second, the topics they discuss. We find that political microbloggers tend to follow like-minded peers. Microbloggers in a cohesive group tend to have the same political preferences. In addition, we conduct a content analysis of the political debate on Twitter to explore which topics and politicians are discussed and whether this debate reflects an ideological divide among participating users. While there are some discussion topics that are dominated by politically like-minded microbloggers, the majority of topics is discussed by a diverse group of microbloggers with various political preferences.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85054420653&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85054420653
T3 - Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011
SP - 474
EP - 477
BT - Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011
PB - AAAI Press
Y2 - 17 July 2011 through 21 July 2011
ER -